Day: November 15, 2012

For many years, Craig Shoemaker proved that pervy was funny. Or at least sounding pervy could be very funny. His vocal impersonations of “The Lovemaster” filled comedy clubs with laughter across America, and in 1997, he won the American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic. That was two wives and three sons ago. “Three boys now but two wives. Not a Mormon. There is an ex! Who is probably most of my act now. It’s a nightmare. I don’t want to talk about her, but a lot of comedy is born out of resentment,” Shoemaker told The Comic’s...

Viacom can keep feting Eddie Murphy once a year if they really must. It’s all good by us. Last year, Comedy Central and the Viacom network of channels presented Eddie Murphy with an Icon Award. This month, it was Spike TV paying tribute to Murphy with an all-star collection of comedians — Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Adam Sandler, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Tracy Morgan and Arsenio Hall among them — in a a special, Eddie Murphy: One Night Only, that premiered Wednesday night. The Roots played. Jeffrey Katzenberg made a speech. As did Tyler Perry. Brett Ratner made a fool...

By Joshua Marston, writer/director of Maria Full of Grace, and director of recent episodes of Newsroom and The Good Wife. Neither that movie nor those TV shows were comedies, but this flow chart is just as applicable, and much more humorous. Via NPR’s Planet...